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The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986: statutory instrument 1986 no. 595 (N.I.4)
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 130p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The 1986 Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order provides the legal framework in Northern Ireland for compulsory admission and treatment of patients suffering from mental illness. GPs can be involved in Mental Health Order assessments in different settings.Compulsory admission for assessment of a patient can only occur when: they are suffering from a mental disorder of a nature or degree that warrants detention in hospital for assessment (or for assessment followed by medical treatment); and failure to detain the patient would create a substantial likelihood of serious physical harm to themselves or to other persons.
The influence of social factors on psychiatric hospitalisation in Northern Ireland: a review of the literature: an analysis of offical statistics and the implications for social workers
- Author:
- MANKTELOW Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Irish Journal of Social Work Research, 2(2), 2000, pp.57-72.
- Publisher:
- Irish Association of Social Workers
The paper reviews the knowledge of the influence of social factors on psychiatric hospitalisation within Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and investigates the particular features of the process in Northern Ireland. The inverse relationship between social class and mental illness has been widely documented in an international context, and has also been investigated by the author in Northern Ireland. But there are oather particular factors which are important mediators of soical influences on psychiatric hospitalisation within the divided society of Northern Ireland. The author identifies three sets of local factors as being of importance. These are: the urban/rural dimensions; religious affiliation; and the influence of twenty five years of civil unrest on the local population's use of psychiatric hospitalisation. The paper reviews the methodological difficulties in concpetualising a causal mechanism operating between social factors and mental illness and argues for the adoption of a qualitative research approach to the social process of psychiatric hospitalisation.